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Topcliffe in York County England History and GeographyTOPCLIFFE, a parish comprising the townships of Catton, Dalton, Elmer with Crakehall, Skipton, and Topcliffe, in the wapentake of BIRDFORTH, and the chapelry of Dishforth, and the townships of Asenby, Baldersby, Marton le Moor, and Rainton with Newby, in the wapentake of HALLIKELD, North riding of the county of YORK, and containing 2540 inhabitants, of which number, 659 are in the township of Topcliffe, which extends within the liberty of St. Peter of York, East riding, 5½ miles (S.S.W.) from Thirsk. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £19. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The church, dedicated to St. Columb, is of high antiquity. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. John Hartforth, in 1588, gave land and money in support of a free grammar school, which, with the subsequent smaller bequests of William Robinson and Henry Roper, produce £70 a year, for the instruction of thirty boys. Here are slight vestiges of the ancient baronial mansion of the Percy family, called Maiden Bower, in which Henry, the fourth Earl of Northumberland, was murdered by the populace, in 1520, for enforcing a tax imposed in the reign of Henry VII.; and in which Thomas, the fifth earl, who was beheaded at York, in 1572, had previously formed a conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth. Charles I. was confined in it, and the sum of £200,000, for giving him up to the parliament, was here paid to the Scottish commissioners. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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